HOME.S.

Description

AN EVENT ON PLANET JAZZ: Esbjörn Svensson's first - unheard and posthumous - solo piano album. The very existence of such a recording and its completely unexpected discovery more than a decade after its creation is nothing short of a sensation: Since the early 1990s, Svensson focused almost all of his creative energy and recording activities on his work with e.s.t. Thus, these new recordings are not only the first, but practically the only ones to show Svensson in a setting other than that of the trio: intimate, concentrated, and completely alone with himself. The recordings for Home.s were made just weeks before Esbjörn Svensson's sudden death on June 14, 2008. Svensson recorded the music in his Swedish home. For nearly ten years, the album remained untouched in his wife Eva's personal archives. She says: "When the solo piano recordings were found in our home, it felt like receiving a message smuggled across the border. A message of love, space, eternity, and infinite creation. But also an encouraging message to continue creating and to find ways for the music to meet the listener. There was more to explore, and today we can tell the whole story of HOME.S." (Radio France)